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In contrast to unicameralism, and bicameralism, multicameralism is the condition in which a legislature is divided into more than two deliberative assemblies...

This list covers English-language country names with their etymologies. Some of these include notes on indigenous names and their etymologies. Countries...

Repatriation is the return of the cultural property, often referring to ancient or looted art, to their country of origin or former owners (or their heirs)...

Indira Radić (née Subotić; Serbian Cyrillic: Индира Радић, née Суботић; born 14 June 1966) is a Bosnian Serb pop-folk singer. She has established herself...

Icelandic magical staves (Icelandic: galdrastafir) are sigils that were credited with supposed magical effect preserved in various Icelandic grimoires...

Shanghailanders were foreign – principally European and American – settlers in the extraterritorial areas of Shanghai, China, between the 1842 Treaty of...

Hrafnagaldr Óðins ("Odin's raven-galdr") or Forspjallsljóð ("prelude poem") is an Icelandic poem in the style of the Poetic Edda. It is preserved only...

Franc Frakelj (a.k.a. Peter Skalar) (19 January 1917–?): 427  was a member of the collaborationist Slovene Home Guard[citation needed] (after the Italian...

Thicket Priory is a religious house in the civil parish of Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England, located about 7 miles (11.3 km) south-east of York. It...

Ida Lewis "Queen Ida" Guillory (born January 15, 1929) is a Louisiana Creole accordionist. She was the first female accordion player to lead a zydeco band...

Michaelhouse is a former college of the University of Cambridge, that existed between 1323 and 1546, when it was merged with King's Hall to form Trinity...

Everard Mercurian (1514 – 1 August 1580) was the fourth Superior General of the Society of Jesus. Born 'Lardinois' into a humble family in Marcourt, near...

György Szondy was a Hungarian soldier and the captain of Drégely Castle. He was a respected soldier, even by his Turkish foes, whose recognition can be...

From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies is a 1974 book (revised and reissued in 1987 and 2016) by feminist film critic Molly Haskell...

Minton Warren (29 January 1850 – 26 November 1907), American classical scholar, was born at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on 29 January 1850, a descendant of...

Carol Anne Gotbaum was a South African-born air traveler who died, at age 45, on September 28, 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona in Sky Harbor International Airport...

MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood was a Marine Atlantic passenger/vehicle ferry which operated between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island in eastern Canada...

Lady Ida Beasley Elliott (December 25, 1864 – 1948) was a missionary to Burma and one of the first women to own a business in Winchester, Tennessee. Because...